Writing the Future
Progress and Evolution
$60.52
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2004
Summary
Through essays, poetry, stories, and images, writers and artists offer their perceptions of how we fit into the world and where we might be headed.The theory of evolution connects us to the natural world, explaining how and why we are a part of nature. The idea of progress, on the other hand, projects a destination. “If nature can supply wonderfully elegant solutions to the problem of survival by trying out test models derived solely by chance, then surely it’s possible for us to find our way…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262528719 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262528711 |
| Author: | David Rothenberg, Wandee J. Pryor |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2004 |
| Weight: | 626g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Terra Nova Books |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
The strength of these pieces lies in their powerful sense of place, binding diverse human activities to their natural context.
…[A] book that will delight the reader…an exemplary anthology.
—William Kowinski , San Francisco ChronicleThe strength of these pieces lies in their powerful sense of place, binding diverse human activities to their natural context.
—Elizabeth Sourbut, New ScientistAbout The Author
David Rothenberg
Musician and philosopher David Rothenberg is the author of Why Birds Sing, Bug Music, Survival of the Beautiful, and many other books, published in at least eleven languages. His more than twenty CDs include One Dark Night I Left My Silent House and, most recently, Berlin B lbul and Cool Spring. He has performed or recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Gabriel, Scanner, Elliott Sharp, and Suzanne Vega. Nightingales in Berlin is his latest book, CD, and film. A 2019 Safina Center Fellow, he is Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.Wandee J. Pryor is former Managing Editor of Terra Nova projects at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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